Maria Kranidis
ENGL 864
Dr. Williamson
Response to Performance
Maria Kranidis
ENGL 864
Dr. Williamson
Response to Performance
Interestingly enough, male characters perform some of function in the play as if in a chess board. The true performance is designed and executed by the women, either by de Stael, or by the imagined voices that are produced in the echoes of the poems in Records of Women. The book celebrates the lives of the women it records as much as it historicizes them in a particular historical moment. The form of poetry holds a song of celebration. Many of the poems celebrate the struggle with love and the struggle for artistic expression. Many of the poems’ artistic styles hold a sentimental value that could be fooling the reader into thinking of a simple subjective, personal matter is at hand in this poems, until one looks closer into the underlining forces of the subject matters at hand that are many times religious, historical, and political.
I do find in most of the poems a sense of women refusing to compromise love for silence; instead they create works of art that will continue to live and transcend beyond their own time. When these women decide to write in order to elevate love to an artistic performative state, they also elevate their roles as women from scripture to reality, from real to divine, from mythical to celestial. The archetypal women roles of the neglected or sacrificed woman become roles of admiration and of beauty. The poems could be read in any way the reader decides. They allow the liberty now to become meta-narrative with the assistance of present time passions and enthusiasm about love that remains through art and through its functions, universal.
The lyrical part of the poems also allow for a specification of intension. The poems could be shared with anyone. In doing so the ideas of women creating in relationship to land and weather as e see in Corinne, opens even more to a broader nationalistic energy in its representation of women of different cultures and languages and customs. Love becomes a great connector in all these poems. Specifically in “Indian Woman’s Death Song” and “The Queen of Prussia’s Tomb” and “The Bride of the Greek Isle” take us to a journey throughout cities and situations. The poems themselves become the performances of many different nationalities and different perspectives.
ENGL 864
Dr. Williamson
Response to Performance
Maria Kranidis
ENGL 864
Dr. Williamson
Response to Performance
Interestingly enough, male characters perform some of function in the play as if in a chess board. The true performance is designed and executed by the women, either by de Stael, or by the imagined voices that are produced in the echoes of the poems in Records of Women. The book celebrates the lives of the women it records as much as it historicizes them in a particular historical moment. The form of poetry holds a song of celebration. Many of the poems celebrate the struggle with love and the struggle for artistic expression. Many of the poems’ artistic styles hold a sentimental value that could be fooling the reader into thinking of a simple subjective, personal matter is at hand in this poems, until one looks closer into the underlining forces of the subject matters at hand that are many times religious, historical, and political.
I do find in most of the poems a sense of women refusing to compromise love for silence; instead they create works of art that will continue to live and transcend beyond their own time. When these women decide to write in order to elevate love to an artistic performative state, they also elevate their roles as women from scripture to reality, from real to divine, from mythical to celestial. The archetypal women roles of the neglected or sacrificed woman become roles of admiration and of beauty. The poems could be read in any way the reader decides. They allow the liberty now to become meta-narrative with the assistance of present time passions and enthusiasm about love that remains through art and through its functions, universal.
The lyrical part of the poems also allow for a specification of intension. The poems could be shared with anyone. In doing so the ideas of women creating in relationship to land and weather as e see in Corinne, opens even more to a broader nationalistic energy in its representation of women of different cultures and languages and customs. Love becomes a great connector in all these poems. Specifically in “Indian Woman’s Death Song” and “The Queen of Prussia’s Tomb” and “The Bride of the Greek Isle” take us to a journey throughout cities and situations. The poems themselves become the performances of many different nationalities and different perspectives.